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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1922)
TITE MORXIXG OREGOXIATf, TTJESD AT, NOVEMBER .28, 13 PORTLAND TO SEE ; W1LURD IN ACTION Ex-Heavyweight Champion on Exhibition Tour. BIG KANSAN IS POPULAR Dempsey's Challenger, in Tow of Bobby Evans, to Demonstrate He Is Fit Contender. Jesa AVillard, ex - heavyweight chamnion of the worldwlll be seen in the northwest in a series oj . t-:L tKV.,i"- exmmuon maicnes nw jpuuujt Evans, well known in Portland as a manacer of boxers and former matchmaker for the Portland box ing commission, is arranging for the big boxer who hopes to regain ine title that now rests upon the curly locks of Jack Dempsey. Evans, who returned to Portland from Los Angeles yesterday, had little chance to talk business with the Portland or Slilwaukie commis sion, but expects to talk Vhe mat ter over with Vepresentatives of both commissions today when a dnte will be set for the appearance here of the white hope who brought the world's heavyweight crown back to the white race. Willard, according to Evans, is the most sought after pugilist In America today, not excepting the champion. Jack Dempsey. Big Jess could tour Americ and make more money knocking over a lot of set ups during the next six months than he will be paid by Tex Rickard or any other promoter to meet the champion, declares Evans, but it is not the desire of Willard to bunk ' the public. Willard Ready to Show Good. He is willing to take on Fred Fulton, Bill Brennan, Floyd John son or any other white heavy weights in his training quarters to prove to the public and press as well as the successful bidder for the Willard-Dempsey match, that he really rates a shot at Dempsey. , Should Willard fail to outclass the ( men who are being mentioned as : opponents for Dempsey he is will ' ing to step aside and let any other man selected step to the barrier with the champion. Willard is well fixed financially, and while he may not have been the flashiest boxer that ever held the heavyweight crown, there is no getting away from the fact that he won the title from Johnson and there is no reason why he should have to fight his way back before getting another chance at the championship, is the argument ad . vanced by Evans. Return Match Held Only Fair. Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and ) other great champions were given return matches for the asking and Willard surely is Entitled to the same deal, says Evans. The present tour of exhibitions : being arranged for Willard by Evans is for the purpose of shpwing l the fans that the ex-champion is active enough, and that with a good siege of training he could go into ) a real bout and give Champion Jack a battle. There is no question but what the boxing fans of . Portland, asl well as other cities in the north west, want to see the big Kansan strip and step a few rounds just to judge for themselves whether he really is fit for a return clash with Dempsey. WILLARD DENIES RUMORS Jess Says No Articles Signed to Meet Floyd Johnson. LOS ANGELES, Cal Nov, 27. Jess Willard, former heavyweight champion, today denied a report from Buffalo, N. Y., that he had accepted an offer to meet Floyd Johnson and renewed his previous statement that he wants to fight Jack Dempsey. He also denied that he had said he was in condition at present. "Any story sent out from Buffalo that I have accepted an offer to meet Floyd Johnson is untrue," said Willard. "I simply wired Charlie Murray, the promoter, that i was going to have a talk with Kearns when he returned here and that I could not give a definite answer until fter that time. "If it is true that Dempsey has signed up with A. H. Woods, then I expect to be the first of the two men who will meet Dempsey. I believe the first good man who meets Dempsey can whip him and I want the chance. "I did not wire Murray that I am in condition, and any stories sent out by him or anyone else to this effect are laughable. If I were, then I would take on Dempsey on the stage 'or anywhere else he might name." NEAV YORK TO GET MEET Intercollegiate Indoor Track and Field Championships Set. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. The annual intercollegiate indoor track and field championships will be held in this city on Saturday, March 3, it was announced today at a meeting of the executive and advisory com mittees of the Intercollegiate Asso ciation of Amateur Athletes of America. The meet will be held t the armory of tho 102d regiment of engineers. It Is probable that the 1924 indoor championships will be awarded to Buffalo or Baltimore, as the committees are in favor of rotation once the games are firmly established. The committees accepted as new intercollegiate records the time of J. A. Leconey of Lafayette, when he won the final of the 100-yard dash at Cambridge last May in .9 7-10 seconds, and the running high jumps of 1 T.i Brown of Dartmouth, who cleared the bar at 6 feet 4 inches at the indoor championships and 6 feet 4?i inches at the outdoor 1 games. GRID STARS ARE TO PLAY All-Anierican Selections to Be Seen in Game Saturday. COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 27. For the first time in the history of Ameri can football, two teams comp'.-eed entirely of men whose names have been mentioned in various all-American selections will play here r.ext Saturday. The game, the proceeds of which will be given to iccal charities, will be played by teams -presenting the east and west re rpectively. The players, all of whom have completed their intercollegiate competition, will come here on the invitation of a local committee ar ranging for' the game. It was an nounced. A contest played a. year a so be- tween two teams of former stars attracted much attention and planned to make it an annual affai The eastern ail-Americans, aa one j of the teams will be known, will be composed of McLaren, Pittsburg:; Casey, Harvard; Kaw, Cornell; Erlckson. W. & J.; Moseley, Yale; Ashbaugh, Brown, Munns, Cornell; Hogsett, Dartmouth: West, Colgate; Peck, Pittsburg and Cutler, Syra cuse. The western all-Americans will be: Rcberts, Centre; McMlllian, Chicago; r.iehenlaub, Notre Dame; Muller, California; Huffman. Ohio Stite; Trott, Ohio Slate; Vick, Michigan; Xemeek, Ohio State; Wallace, Iowa State; Bolen, Ohio State and Crangle, Illinois. BABE RUTH IN TRAINING BAMBINO ON FARM GETTING IX SHAPE FOR 1923. Ex-King of Swat Declared Trying to Recover Lost Laurels by Rigorous Workout. -a ' By Chicago Trfbune Leased Wire.) SUDBURY, Mass., Nov.. 27. Babe Ruth is making good on his pledge to essay a "come-back." Far from Broadway's lure he is living a sim ple, regular, rigorous life on his farm here. A farmer's chores are his daily training. His muscles with each ax blow are gatnering power with which he expects to reclaim the home-run crown, and there is much wood chopping daily In the Babe's new routine. When he plays he roams the open fields with a rifle, training the old eye to see keenly. Or he gets a healthy, clean enjoyment from tfro companionship of animals, his favorite pet just now beijig a white rabbit. The Babe has changed. He took an oath of faith to his army of worshipers to retrieve their re spect, to return to baseball next year ready to regain his lost laurels. And he's working hard to keep that pledge. Baby Dorothy Helen, his bright eyed daughter, is with the Babe on the farm. Ruth doesn't dress for dinner. He is more interested in calories than clothes. His interest takes him into the kitchen frequently. He has foregone cigarettes for a long stemmed pipe. The one missing figure in the homely domestic scene will soon be supplied. Mrs. Ruth, who is in St. Vincent's hospital in New York city recovering from an operation, ex pects to jin her big and little babes within a week or two. Mrs. Ruth has refused to receive visitors, under strict orders of her doctor, it is said. In accordance with her wishes, the nature of her illness Is being kept secret. UMPIRES FAVOR UNION Organization "to Help Them As sert Rights Is Considered. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, Nov. 27. Minor league umpires are boiling over with the idea of forming a labor union to help them assert their rights. They expect to form this organization at the annual Louisville meeting of theJ Nationai association. Foremost in their demands will be the elimination of alleged "pull,' which takes some "lame duck," ex player cr green athlete and makes him a major league arbiter, while the competent minor league um pires, veterans and capable, are passed by. They cite two instances of this alleged unfairness. One is George Moriarity, noted umpire baiter, who was made a major league umpire when his playing days were done. He had no ex perience and never qualified with men like Brick Owens and Hank O'Day. Another case was Ed Walsh, the ex-White Sox star. He was alleged to have fallen down so badly on decisions last summer that he was shjfted to the utility list. According to the promoters of the new union, the organization will demand that organized baseball give each minor league umpire a chance in the big league after a certain period of service and as fast as openings permit. REED QUINTETS GET BUSY Freshman Squad Is Causing Other Classes to Worry. With the intra-mural football sea son over and the championship in the hands of the upperclass team, interclass basketball has come to the fore at Reed college. The freshmen squad, with a fast group of men out for practice daily, is giving the other teams something to worry about. Wilson, Reynolds, Pilpel and Colt are among a mass of fine material. Experienced men in the upper classes are scarce. The sophomores lead in the number of last year's men, having Galser, Griffin, John son, Riches, Frazier and Stone back on the floor and proving good mate rial on which to build a team. The championship team of last season finds Beich and Weinsteln the only regulars back in the line up, although Brady and Houston, substitutes last year, are expected to helB the seniors. The juniors look to Henny and Graham as a nucleus around which to build their team. Sweater Given to Hayward. EUGENE, Nov. 27. Bill Hayward, veteran trainer of athletes at the University of Oregon, today was presented by the Student body with a sweater with 20 service stripes oft the sleeves. He has toeen with the university 20 years. Syracuse Wins Cross-Country. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Syracuse university today won the ant.ual Intercollegiate cross-country run over the six-mile course at Van Ccrtlandt park. Yale was second and Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology third. FOOTBALL . M. A. A. C. (Portland) vs. O. A. C. (San Francisco) To tie played Thanksgiving day at Multnomah Field, 2:30 P. M. Tickets $1.00 and $1.50 on sale Sporting Gopds Store, Sixth Floor. a- ?.l-;DREG0N ENTRAINS TODAY SHORT PRACTICE IS TO BE HELD BY ELEVEN. Workout Also Slated for Wedncs tlay in Preparation for Washington Battle. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, Nov. 27. (Special.) Oregon's football team. 22 strong, will board Uie northbound Shasta at 4:30 to morrow for Seattfe, where on Thurs- j day they will clash with the Uni ! versity of Washington in the final and most crucial game of the north ern season. Prior to entraining the webfooters will hold short practice and will again work out in Seattle Wednesday afternoon. The team will reach Seattle Wednesday at 7 A. M. and will stay at the Washington hotel annex. Accompanying the squad will be Coaches Shy Huntington, Bart Spellman and Baz Williams, Trainer Bill Hayward, Graduate Manager Benefiel and Student Manager HulL Shy Huntington put his proteges; through a stiff practice tonight and in the hour of scrimmage against the second stringers the team at tack showed powerful and effective. The workout tomorrow prior to de parture will 'be Just enough to taper off from the stiff practice that has been held since the victory over the Aggies. The final practice Wednes day will consist mainly of signal drill. The coaching staff and the team realize that they will be up against a strong team when they face the Vikings and everything in the repertoire of the .lemon-yellow attack will be uncorked in the at tempt to win. A victory will give Oregon a tie with California for the coast championship and will further put it In line for the Penn State game. An all-student rally at the train will send the Oregon, war riors north. The players making th trip will be: Centers, Callison, Bill Johnson; guards, Shields, captain. Tiny Shields, Dick Reed, Byler; tackles. Vonderahe, Cogs Campbell, Me Keown, Gooding; ends. Spear, Brach- er, Terry, Johnson; quarterbacks. Chapman, Russ Brown; halfbacks. King, Ward Johnson, Gram, Jordan, Tergerson; fullbacks, Latham, ;Burton. . Oakland Signs Chet Thomas. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. Chet Thomas, former American League catcher, has' signed a contract with the Oakland club of the- Pacific Coast league for the 1923 season, it was announced here today. Thomas was with Oakland in 1909 and after ward played with Boston and Cleve land. Swimming Splashes. Nothing more amazing has occurred in swimming than the 440-yard back stroke performance in 6 minutes 24 4-5 seconds achieved by Miss Sybil Bauer of the Illinois Athletio club in Bermuda recently. Not only did the feat better Miss Baeur's own world's record for women by IS 4-5 seconds, but actually broke the men's international standard of 8 minutes 28 seconds, held by Harold Kruger of Honolulu. Never before was a woman known to beat a swimming record for men. An'interesting sidelight on Miss Bauer's performance is that Kruger, now a resi dent of Chicago, heard some weeka ago that the Illinois Athletio club girl mar vel was preparing to attack his mark in Bermuda and mads up his mind that he would put it beyond her reach before shf got a chance at it. So he requested that a special race be added to a meet in Milwaukee, But all the trouble of the trip went for naught, for the young Hawaiian failed even to equal his stand ard time. To have this fair natator break his mark must have been a ter rible Jolt to the man fish, Observers of swimming have long pre dieted that women would make swim ming competition Interesting for men. Women so far excel men in the water now, taking swimmers as an average, that put them in competition and you will find that the women will win oh points in every style or distance of swimming. This is true of any section or taking the United States in general Meni holding world's records are making better time than women, but with thess tew exceptions swimming is tha women's port. i While on his vacation. Professor J. A. Jackson of Los Angeles Is making tour of southern California and at the same time giving free Instructions, in swimming and life saving to school chil dren and boy scouts. More than passing Interest attaches to the report from the Antipodes that Miss Mina Wylle of Sydney is expected to be the conspicuous figure In the swim ming championships of Australia again this season. This remarkable water queen, who swept everything before her in 1921-S2, now is 31 years old, yet she fa swimming faster than ever. Not long ago she swam 100 yards officially In 1 minute 4-fl seconds, the best per formance in her brilliant career. - Much interest has been aroused In New York by an, article in one of the Honolulu dallies in which Miss Ruth Stacker, former swimming ohamplon and formally of Portland, writes that the mermaids of Hawaii are ready to challenge to contest any five rivals from any state In the union or the entire United Slates. Said one of the officials of the New Tork Women Swimming associating, commenting on the article "The women's swimming association will be glad to accept the challenge for its own girls without seeking the help of other stars in the state or country If It develops that the defi Is not newspaper talk. Moreover, an all-around test should. oe arrangea, juaging irom tne announce ment that a team of Hawaii's foremost girl swimmers is to visit this continent within 4 -few months. At all events, they win ting 'tne women's swimming n VARIED FWTTERNS Match Well With. 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